Neil Peart, great drummer...We use Deadline over
It is a pain in the ass and I dread the day when I have to explain to
all the "Maya Guys" why XSI, the better choice, requires a license
for "non-interactive" processing.
I've already gone through the ringer trying to explain why XSIBatch
and MR Standalone "sometimes" produce different results.
This also brings up a question regarding 3rd party renderer's. Will I
need an XSIBatch license to export RIB files, or when using an
alternative embedded renderer?
Vote for free MI generation in Essentials/Advanced
Yes no
[x] [ ] Votch Levi, Also a fan of Free "Non-Interactive" Licensing.
On 10/1/07, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Votch,
> That sounds exactly what out farm does with Maya. Are you also Rush uses? :)
> We have a python backend which runs a maya-wrapper that exports the
> file and then render it. And we let Rush do the math of how the jobs
> are divided up between machines.
>
> We are thinking of creating MI servers though which only do MI
> exports, but that is only in the "idea" phase right now. And it might
> stay there too since what we do now works pretty good.
>
> regards
> Stefan Andersson
>
>
> On 9/30/07, Votch <megavotch(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Use the -processing flag.
> >
> > xsibatch essential comes with 4 processing tokens and xsibatch
> > advanced comes with 8 processing tokens. This means with 1 xsibatch
> > essential
> > license you can spawn 4 "xsibatch -export -processing" jobs and still
> > have a 1 token left for rendering.
> >
> > On our renderfarm we create 2 tasks when rendering with MI files.
> >
> > The first rendertasks exports MI files. We usually split up MI
> > exporting across 10-20 machines. Based on the length of the shot to
> > minimize scene loadtime. But always export 1 MI per frame.
> >
> > The second task is depended on completion of tasks 1. This task
> > renders the MI files 1 render node per frame.
> >
> > Votch-
> >
> > On 9/30/07, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > yes but with Maya MI generation is free, so you can have as many
> > > computers as you want generating MI files from Maya.
> > >
> > >
> > > regards
> > > stefan
> > >
> > > On 9/30/07, Bernard Lebel <3dbernard(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 9/30/07, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > 1.) Would XSI be able to do the same thing?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, if I'm not mistaken only Foundation can't do mi generation.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > > Bernard
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